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Nightshade C64 – Part 1

I’m going to post a few things on Nightshade tonight. I wrote the C64 version 27 years ago, so it’s about time. I’ll write up my thoughts more fully at some point, and probably for another destination, but for now, I’ll share with you some of the documents I’ve kept from that time, starting with the contract I had with Firebird, and then later, maybe tonight, maybe in a day or two, the nicely packaged document that Chris Stamper sent me.

The 8th of October is of 1985 – and that’s my handwriting on the MOU, though the initials were of Paul Jacobs of Telecomsoft. It was Firebird who had the licence for publishing Nightshade, but I guess they didn’t have too long to do it, because they gave me four weeks, after which I’d have to pay a penalty of £400 a week.

The contract is brutally short, but that was fine by me, and would be today too.